Thinking about all the reasons we have for praising our LORD.

From All Sin

There is so much comfort for us in the Bible — if we just open it up and partake of it. The comfort everyone needs is the comfort of being made worthy of eternal life in heaven. The only way to be worthy is to be pure and holy — to be absolutely rid of all our sins.

So, how can that take place for each of us?

1 John 1:7 tells us,

If we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

To walk in God’s “Light” is to live according to His truths in the Bible. That means believing what God says in the Bible about our Savior, Jesus Christ — loving the way God loves us — thanking and praising God for the free salvation He has given us in Christ — abiding in the word of God — studying and learning from it.

When we abide in God’s word — in the Bible’s promises — we are having “fellowship” with God. In our “fellowship”, we learn how God has worked our salvation for us — and we thank Him for having Jesus suffer and die on the cross to pay for all our sins.

John is specifically teaching us that when we have “fellowship” with God, “the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin“. “All sin” means “all sin”. There are no exceptions. God is fully aware of how greatly we need to be cleansed from “all” our “sin”. Washing away some of our sin will not make us holy enough for heaven. We need cleansing from “all sin”.

So, we need to notice that John says Jesus “cleanses us from all sin“. That word “cleanses” tells us that we are made clean from all of our past sins — the sins of this moment — and the sins we will sin in the future. John is talking about an on-going cleansing “from all sin”. It is not just the sins we know about — but also the sins we are not aware of for all time.

Such cleansing truly makes us pure and holy — worthy of eternal life. And we owe our thanks to God every day, as we say, “Hallelujah! Lord Jesus, You are the giver of eternal life. Thank You!”